Sonatype released the next
generation of its free Repository Health Check (RHC) feature within its
flagship Nexus Repository product. As of today, all 120,000
organizations using Nexus will benefit immediately from the ability to automatically
analyze the quality and security of open source software components
housed within their Nexus Repository as part of their DevOps pipeline.

While
open source and third-party software components bring greater
efficiency to application development, they are not without their
weaknesses. According to the 2017 DevSecOps Community Survey,
1-in-5 organizations confirmed or suspected a breach related to known
vulnerabilities in open source components used in their applications --
up 50% over the past three years.

With
the introduction of the next-generation RHC, Nexus Repository users can
now automatically identify open source security risks at the earliest
stages of their DevOps pipeline. Specifically, the RHC feature empowers
software development teams with three important capabilities:

Provides actionable guidance on which components housed in the repository manager should be upgraded or replaced.

Prioritizes
the list of vulnerable components by severity and impact, detailing how
many times each component was downloaded from the repository manager by
developers in the past 30 days.

Reveals
month-over-month metrics on the hygiene of the organization's software
supply chain to identify improving standards or worrisome trends.

"To
maximize velocity and quality, DevOps-native teams must address
security issues at the beginning -- not the end -- of the development
lifecycle," said Wayne Jackson, CEO of Sonatype. "Sonatype was first to
market with the Repository Health Check capability in 2012 and today it
evaluates more than 50 million components across 25,000 repositories
every day. With our next-generation features, Nexus Repository
customers can feel confident their development practices are building in
security from the start."

The next-generation RHC feature is available now as part of the Nexus Repository 3.3 release.